Performing Arts, Integrated Performing Arts Concentration, BA
In addition to existing minors in music, theater, and musical arts administration, the Performing Arts Program includes three possible major concentrations. The concentrations are:
Music: provides students with a full range of musical opportunities, academic and performance, guided with a high level of personal attention. We offer instrumental and vocal instruction, the opportunity to participate in ensembles, and coursework that supports an understanding of music in its wider historical, social, cultural and geographical contexts. Summer international and orchestral programs offer students the opportunity to expand horizons and deepen understanding of worlds beyond their own by engaging in conservatory-like, pre-professional training here and abroad. Taken together, these endeavors prepare our students for advanced training and careers in a variety of fields such as performance, composition, music scholarship, education and arts administration.
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies: Students develop the knowledge and skills required to create theater, dance and performance, including visual thinking, design, dance, acting and performance, directing, movement, stagecraft, playwriting and critical analysis, writing and presentation.
Integrated Performing Arts: Students explore how performance of various kinds can serve as a method of research and communication that intersects in productive ways with other fields in the arts, sciences, and social sciences.
Minimum Grade and GPA Requirements
Students must earn a grade of C- or better in each course counted towards the major, and maintain an overall GPA of at least 2.0 in these courses.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will develop a wide range of skills necessary for the creation and/or performance of music, theater and/or dance.
- Students will collaborate to apply performing arts skills in public performances.
- Students will identify artistic and professional values and goals based on an understanding of the world of performing arts beyond SMCM and will begin to take steps to carry out those goals.
- Students will locate and use a wide range of evidence and theoretical frameworks in the performing arts.
- Students will construct clear, specific and well supported analyses and interpretations of the performing arts.
- Students will communicate ideas about the performing arts through writing for various audiences.
- Students will communicate ideas about the performing arts through discussion and formal presentations for various audiences.
- Students will evaluate how historical and contemporary sociocultural contexts, inequities, and systems of power affect and are influenced by the performing arts.
- Students will identify, imagine and practice forms of expression, structures, processes and systems within the performing arts that elevate and advocate for historically oppressed and marginalized groups and people.
Degree Requirements
Required Foundational Courses - 24 Credits
OR
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 201
Required Developmental Courses - 14 Credits
Elective Developmental Courses - 8 Credits
Prerequisite(s): TDPS 230 or consent of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): Methods of Study.
Prerequisite(s): TDPS 230 or consent of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): TDPS 171, TDPS 275, or consent of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): TDPS 170, TDPS 171, or consent of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): TDPS 170, TDPS 171, or consent of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): Depending on the topic, prerequisites may apply.
Prerequisite(s): TDPS 255 or consent of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): Depending on the topic, prerequisites may apply. Check the online “Schedule of Classes” for topics and prerequisites.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Internship Program and approval of the TFMS faculty.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of TFMS staff required.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of TFMS staff required.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 204
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 318
Prerequisite(s): Music major status, or permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Internship Program and approval of the department chair. (See “Internships” under “Academic Policies” section.)
Capstone Courses - 12 Credits
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 204
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 493 and approval of the proposed project by the music faculty.
OR
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and approval of faculty mentor and department chair(s) of the student’s major(s). Consult faculty mentor for project guidelines
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and approval of faculty mentor and department chair(s) of the student’s major(s). Consult faculty mentor for project guidelines
OR
Sequence of Study
First Year
Fall:
Spring:
Prerequisite(s): TDPS 220, TDPS 221, or consent of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 201
Second Year
Fall:
Spring:
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor.
Third Year
Fall:
Spring:
Fourth Year
Fall:
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and approval of faculty mentor and department chair(s) of the student’s major(s). Consult faculty mentor for project guidelines
Spring:
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and approval of faculty mentor and department chair(s) of the student’s major(s). Consult faculty mentor for project guidelines
Prerequisite(s): Permission of TFMS staff required.